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Subject: Re: Dead Wrong!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:03:13 07/21/00

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On July 21, 2000 at 07:42:00, Chris Carson wrote:

>On July 21, 2000 at 07:06:08, Alvaro Polo wrote:
>
>>On July 21, 2000 at 01:11:57, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>
>>>On July 20, 2000 at 19:57:16, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 20, 2000 at 19:11:03, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>[Event "DB-GK the rematch"]
>>>>>[Site "am Rd1; bm Rf5+"]
>>>>>[Date "2000.05.31"]
>>>>>[Round "?"]
>>>>>[White "DEEP BLUE"]
>>>>>[Black "Garry Kasparov"]
>>>>>[Result "0-1"]
>>>>>[WhiteElo "?"]
>>>>>[BlackElo "?"]
>>>>>[FEN "4r3/8/2p2PPk/1p1r4/pP2p1R1/P1B5/2P2K2/8 b - - 0 1"]
>>>>>
>>>>>DB played Rd1?? which caused a giant immediate material loss where Rf5+
>>>>>is the obvious defence. The most convincing argument is the score DB gave
>>>>>for Rd1?? way too positive (perhaps Uri remembers) and the very negative
>>>>>(and correct) scores some of the micro's gave when they did an analysis.
>>>>
>>>>Didn't someone say this one was caused by a C macro being improperly expanded or
>>>>some such?
>>>
>>>I don't know and I really don't care. All we have are a few games and
>>>hiding behind bugs is not a very convincing argument.
>>>
>>>Ed
>>
>>If what you are seeking is the truth you should care.
>>
>>Alvaro
>
>The truth is that Ed, Uri, and Amir are right.  DB had bugs
>and a simple eval (so that HSU could put it into ASICS, HSU
>was a HW guy Murry was the SW guy, trade offs were made to
>create ASICS).
>
>Best Regards,
>Chris Carson


You are obviously an ASIC expert?  And their claim of 8,000 adjustable eval
terms is therefore bogus?  And it was our imagination that it beat Kasparov
3 years ago?

thought so...

Nice to have someone that doesn't know anything about hardware declaring what
Hsu could and couldn't do, _after_ he had already done it...



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